The Guardian's top 100 albums of the 21st century

[METALMAN]

only the Queen is allowed to kill them

[probablyoliver]

Their album 'The Seer' is one of the best things ever recorded. It's insanely good. It would've been my pick for 2012 but that Converge album is GOAT-worthy.

Basically, 2012 was a really good year for music.

[tristy]

2000: Relationship of Command by At the Drive-In
2001: Lateralus by TOOL
2002: Phrenology by The Roots
2003: De-Loused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta
2004: Madvillain by MF DOOM & Madlib
2005: Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
2006: The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New
2007: Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
2008: Third by Portishead
2009: So Far Gone by Drake
2010: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
2011: James Blake by James Blake
2012: NO LOVE DEEP WEB by Death Grips
2013: Wakin' On A Pretty Daze by Kurt Vile
2014: Piñata by Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
2015: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit by Courtney Barnett
2016: The Life of Pablo by Kanye West
2017: Mass Education by St. Vincent
2018: Astroworld by Travis Scott
2019: When I Get Home by Solange

This is based purely off of what I have in my iTunes library, by the way. Some of those years were pretty tough.

Edited September 17, 2019 by tristy

[DFF]

15 hours ago, Jericode said:

Who the fuck are Swans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swans_(band)

Depending on which bit you listen to - Post-Rock/Noise Rock/Post-Punk/Industrial/Experimental Rock. Very highly regarded in more underground and avant-garde circles. 

[DFF]

16 hours ago, metalman said:

Have any of those people voting for Radiohead ever actually LISTENED to a Radiohead album?

Around 20+ thousand users of RYM it seems! 

I always struggled with them in the past, but recently I have had odd tracks played back to me now (tastes change etc) and I can at least appreciate what they did. Pyramid Song, for example, is wonderfully constructed. 

[GhostMachine]

On 17/09/2019 at 14:18, metalman said:

only the Queen is allowed to kill them

Good thing Brian and Roger don't have an issue with them.

[Jimmy]

On 13/09/2019 at 16:28, Naitch said:

I've heard three at best. Lily Allen at #72 is a definite; Eminem at #67 and Justin Timberlake at #87 are strong maybes. Moreover, there are 37 entries where I don't even recognise the name of the artist(s), including one in the top ten (The Streets).

this is genuinely outrageous

[METALMAN]

Naitch's house is where The Streets have no name

4 minutes ago, Jimmy said:

this is genuinely outrageous

Whereas you are a manic Streets preacher

[probablyoliver]

Fun fact, up until about a year ago I thought they were called the Manic Street Peaches.

Also yeah, what the fuck @Naitch!?

[Naitch]

I've heard of a couple of their songs but didn't recognise the artist name.

[Jimmy]

8 minutes ago, Naitch said:

I've heard of a couple of their songs but didn't recognise the artist name.

you're making me feel old 

[Naitch]

Well you are older than me

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

2018 is such a tough call and by contrast I still can't pick anything for 2012 

[Naitch]

2000: Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
2001: All Killer No Filler by Sum 41 (It was between this and Sophie Ellis-Bextor )
2002: Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age
2003: Meteora by Linkin Park (Blink-182's self-titled album narrowly misses out)
2004: Start Something by Lostprophets (Ian Watkins is still a monster though)
2005: A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out by Panic! at the Disco
2006: One-X by Three Days Grace (So many albums could've occupied this slot)
2007: Take to the Skies by Enter Shikari
2008: Appeal to Reason by Rise Against
2009: Black Gives Way to Blue by Alice in Chains
2010: Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold
2011: Fools and Worthless Liars by Deaf Havana
2012: A Flash Flood of Colour by Enter Shikari
2013: Sempiternal by Bring Me the Horizon
2014: White Noise by PVRIS
2015: American Beauty/American Psycho by Fall Out Boy
2016: California by Blink-182
2017: Eternity, In Your Arms by Creeper
2018: Fight the Good Fight by The Interrupters
2019: Tim by Avicii

The last two years haven't really had much which excited me.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Appeal to Reason is a banging shout for 2008, I'm changing my answer to that.

Great list.

[Naitch]

The Sufferer and the Witness was probably the closest runner-up for 2006. The Feeling, Kasabian, Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Skillet, Breaking Benjamin, and Lostprophets again were all in consideration. Even that's without including MCR's beset/most popular album, because I've never been too into them.

[METALMAN]

That Panic at the Disco one is 2005? Wow. I remember everyone at my school talking about that as if it were brand new and exciting in 2007/08. But maybe Kilmarnock is just a bit behind everyone else...

[Naitch]

I remember trading that P!ATD album and a poster of Maria for an Xbox 360 game with a friend in early 2007. No idea what the game was so I think it was a good deal xD

The new Blink-182 album came out this weekend and it's already feeling like the new #1 for this year so far. I was really looking forward to the posthumous Avicii album, but it understandably feels incomplete and missing something.

[RPS]

On 14/09/2019 at 09:44, RPS said:

Also, I don't want to do a huge list but it is easier to say here is the best album of each year

• 2000: The Hives - Vendi Vidi Vicious 
• 2001: Daft Punk - Discovery
• 2002: 2 Many Djs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt 2
• 2003: The White Stripes - Elephant
• 2004: Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters 
• 2005: Sleater Kinney - The Woods
• 2006: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
• 2007: MIA - Kala
• 2008: Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair 
• 2009: Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
• 2010: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma 
• 2011: Danny Brown - XXX
• 2012: Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
• 2013: Beyonce - Beyonce 
• 2014: Todd Terje - Its Album Time
• 2015: Sufjan Steven's- Carrie and Lowell
• 2016: Frank Ocean - Blonde 
• 2017: Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
• 2018: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
• 2019: Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Updated the list, it is still objectively true. 

 

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

On 16/09/2019 at 19:02, Jericode said:

• 2000: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
• 2001: Tool - Lateralus
• 2002: Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
• 2003: Linkin Park - Meteora
• 2004: Green Day - American Idiot
• 2005: Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
• 2006: My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
• 2007: Paramore - Riot
• 2008: Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
• 2009: Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
• 2010: Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
• 2011: Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
• 2012: Shinedown - Amaryllis
• 2013: Biffy Clyro - Opposites
• 2014: Royal Blood - Royal Blood
• 2015: Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
• 2016: Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
• 2017: Roam - Great Heights and Nosedives
• 2018: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance
• 2019: Foals - Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Pt. 2
  
  Purely picked from my iTunes library, if I cared to look more in depth I'd probably change half of it. Lot of difficult years to pick from so I'd probably change half of this tomorrow in any case, 2018 in particular had at least three of my favourite albums.

Updated half of the 2010s on reflection.